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The previous administration had purged anybody who criticized policy. It punished dissenting voices. It silenced all critics, from Senators to members of Congress, from cabinet secretaries to chiefs of staff to janitors.
Total loyalty to President Dunn and his decisions, no matter how ego-driven and uninformed and outright dangerous they were, had been demanded.
Competence was replaced by blind loyalty as the determining factor for employment by an increasingly deranged administration.
Talking about the loss of years of relationships and contacts and connections in those running the government, and how at risk it put the whole country.

The most amazing this that has happened in my lifetime is neither putting a man on the moon nor Facebook having 2.8 billion monthly active users. It is that in the 75 years, 7 months, and 13 days since Nagasaki, a nuclear bomb has not been detonated
Starting the book off with this amazing quite by Tom Peters